Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Whatever you do, don't let rye berries soak for more than 2 days. I swear after the fourth day of 20 something jars soaking in water it made my house smell like dirty diapers. So if your gonna soak them for a day and then simmer or pc them or throw them out.

On a side note I dumped them all out in a bucket and tossed them next to the neighbors fence. Their dog was loving that shit, every time i walked out with a bucket full he was standing there wagging his tail and licking the fence. lol

Why soak them at all? I simply boil them for 1/2 hour, strain, add some dried vermiculite or manure to adjust moisture to proper, load in spawn bags, and pressure cook for 3 to 4 hours. Never once have I had contamination and I've done over a dozen huge bags this way. Rye is practically fool proof when done like this.

just simmer for a like 2 hrs low heat so aftet an he its just hot and after 1.5 hr is barly bowling then pc

-------------------- CLICK THIS Ultimate Myco Directory v5.0At the bottom of this page is a search bar to search all the post and threads on the forum so you can see all the other 500 people who asked the same thing.use the top search too it has shroomery approved FAQs USE IT YOU CAN DO IT !

A 36 to 48 hour soak is fine. The rye will stink to high heaven, but that's a good thing. It means the bacterial endospores have germinated, so they'll be easily killed by the PC. I always boil for five minutes in the water the grains soaked in to kill the live bacteria before dumping down the sink. I don't want all that live bacteria going into the P-trap below my sink and thriving.

I think it depends on the freshness of your rye. Rye also sprouts if not FULLY sumberged in water REAL quick. Like 24 hours. I soak all the time for 2 and EVEN 3 days (hard to tell when I have the next day free so I dont always get to it, I do shoot for only 12-24 hours) and as long as the rye stays fully submerged (requires adding more water pretty much always), it hasnt germinated yet. When I have waited 3 days, my contam rate does go up slightly..not to much...I hit 4 days once though (3 day soak, simmer, left sitting in the pan for another day before PCing) and lost half the batch to bacteria.

--------------------"life is like a drop of rain getting closer and closer to falling into a lake, and then when you hit the lake there is no more rain drop, only the lake."

As I explained, timing. If I say ok I'll get some grain soaking for tomorrow, I do at least 22 jars/batch. Its like 5-6 hours work simmering, prepping and PCing. My grow is stealth from visitors to my apartment including friends so I can only PC when we have no visitors. Then somedays I have hours of harvesting to do or casing, or inoculating, or spawning, all of which take hours to do. And my girlfriend also requires time and she gets pissed when I'm up all the time doing all this shit. Timing is crucial and so often grain will sit for 2 days. On rare occasion, even longer.

--------------------"life is like a drop of rain getting closer and closer to falling into a lake, and then when you hit the lake there is no more rain drop, only the lake."